# IronMQ Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is IronMQ the right Application Development solution for you? Explore 26 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/182241/IronMQ/reviews --- IronMQ 4.3 (26) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/182241/IronMQ/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of IronMQ Ease of use 4.2 Customer Service 4.4 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 26 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Ryan B. CEO Internet Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Efficiency is the name of the game" February 15, 2019 5.0 We process millions of jobs a month and needed a way to scale outside of running our own Sidekiq instance. Worker and MessageQueue were the team that solved it for us. Pros We run a pretty lean startup and need to offload as much development operations as possible. We looked at AWS of course and discovered IronMQ to be the right balance of functionality, ease-of-use, and cost. The Worker and MessageQueue products are particularly top-notch. Cons It was difficult to migrate off of our existing infrastructure but the team at Iron tried hard to ease the pain. There's probably no way around it. Not everything will transfer seamlessly but we were able to do it with minimal downtime. Review Source JR Jose R. Data Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Set up a push queue in few minutes" February 15, 2019 5.0 We needed a cloud-hosted push queue to distribute work across several worker nodes that we were hosting and ironMQ was the perfect solution. The Node.js sdk allowed us to set up very quickly the necessary code to send the jobs requests, and then you just need to set up your queue to push your messages to these subscribed workers. Another feature we liked was the availability of some Docker images that mimicked the authentication and queue behaviour for testing locally. We've used extensively in our docker-compose stacks. Pros Very easy to set up projects, queues, subscribers. Good value for money. Cons The company seems to be quite focused on IronWorker and the product plans do not contemplate a low-volume case when you just need a cloud-hosted push queue server to distribute amongs subscribers. Documentation on local setup with Docker is limited. Review Source Ezekiel V. CTO Internet Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Evaluate with great caution and care before committing" February 15, 2019 2.0 IronMQ at the time was the simplest integration for our small PHP Laravel app on Heroku. We are still stuck on it despite having grown significantly. Even when we were small we faced myriad horrible technical issues that should never happen with any production 3rd party service -- loss of data, frequent outages, god awful performance, buggy UI causing you to have to revert to your own API usage for simple queue management tasks, etc. I would never put it past a company to improve over time so I won't just tell you to run away as fast as you can, but SERIOUSLY if you ever are actually considering using Iron or someone tries to convince you to use it, you should be prepared to justify that decision against very mature, very serious competition at this point. Queuing is more or less a solved problem including managed solutions in the cloud; Iron doesn't hold a candle to the competition at this point in time. Pros \- Signed up on a free plan - Integrated easily with Heroku Cons \- Randomly lost queues several times during THEIR outages - Very slow performance - Horrible support; sometimes WEEKS without response - Horrible documentation -- out of date, incomplete, etc. - Minimal feature set -- not even close to competitors - Terrible, buggy UI online Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Software Developer Hospitality Used the software for: 2+ years ### "IronMQ let us quickly get to solving the problems that really mattered for our company" February 15, 2019 5.0 Pros IronMQ was simple to implement in our system. We use it for a number of use cases and find it reliable, fast, and easy to use. Cons I can't think of any specific issue we've had with IronMQ. When we first started we organized things in an awkward way which lead to a large number of projects appearing on the dashboard when logging into Iron. That was mostly our own fault though. Review Source Diego M. VP Engineering Investment Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Interaction with go driver is great!" February 15, 2019 5.0 I wrote a search engine that had to coordinate several crawlers. I used IronMQ because I didn't want to setup any of the other message queues. I wrote my app in Go, and the go driver to talk to IronMQ was well designed, easy to follow examples on their site. The dashboard gives you enough info to debug any issues. Really good experience. Pros How easy it was to get up and running. At least the Go driver let's you put your config files in several places, following a hierarchy to override one value or another. Cons This will sound like a fake review but my experience was just very good with IronMQ, there wasn't anything I needed that wasn't there. Review Source YH Yu H. SW Team Leader Semiconductors Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Good service but price model is questionable" March 1, 2019 3.0 We need sequential process high # of messages, we are looking for cloud sequential message solution to integrate with our full Cloud processing cluster design. AWS SQS can't guarantee "sequential" and "process only once)", IronMQ is right what we need when need a quick POC. The initial stage works really great using the cheap charging model. When our message volumes increase (still under the technical "CAP"), we met couple times of random wisdom issue. The support is quick and fix the issue, then another error pattern show up again. So IronMQ asked to upgrade payment plan. Unfortunately we don't want to invest too much for one feature of our solution, so instead we use 2 weeks to create a home-build Aurora based solution, performance/reliability much better than IronMQ cheap option, and cheap than their expensive option. Pros Very easy to integrate, all features are available for quick trial, and support is good Cons The huge quality gap before development solution and enterprise solution, even the traffic is under the CAP. We did meet couple times of random low-frequency issue for cheaper version, and the only solution offered to us is to upgrade to Enterprise version. Review Source NV Nikki V. Director of member services Real Estate Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great product - High cosr" February 26, 2019 5.0 It has been great worked as promised. Getting a hold of their support is sometimes slow. Pros Great product helps us manage our data from our internal database to our eCrm Cons The price went up dramatically from the last few years. We need the service but if someone referred a cheaper solution we would switch. Review Source Kenny K. Web Production Manager Responsible for SEO, Web Design, & Social Media Marketing Financial Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "IronMQ Helps us Streamline Ecommerce " February 18, 2019 5.0 We use IronMQ to queue emails for our custom ecommerce platform and also for delaying address verification. Pros One of the best features of IronMQ are the push queues. We also love the Heroku add-on that gives us a greats solution for fast hosting. One of its best features, though, is the great support... very responsive and helpful! Cons The only con we can think of is the pricing structure. Scaling this service can get a little expensive, though, depending on your needs, can be worth it in the long term. Review Source jM joshua M. CTO Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Simple, Scaleable Queue service" February 15, 2019 4.0 Pros Documentation is straight forward, its nice that they have sdks / plugins for major frameworks like laravel to work with the native queue system. Cons as frameworks evolve and their queuing feature become more robust, having those features brought though to the platform would be amazing. for example https://horizon.laravel.com/ has some cool retry features. some stats on processing time. Review Source KM Keerthi M. Senior Software Engineer/Architect Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great Scalable solution with bang for the buck" March 26, 2019 5.0 Use it to build a service which gets intermittent high loads and still maintain good sla levels on processing while not loosing messages. Ironmq and ironworker together help me with scaling and processing in cloud native fashion. On prem install helps where we have to have a onpremise install Pros Ease of use, scalability for handling intermittent high loads, integration with iron worker. Good price point Cons No out of box integration with spring cloud data flow Review Source HL Harrison L. Associate Data Scientist Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Solid software with some room for improvement." February 26, 2019 4.0 Pros The software is generally very reliable and powerful. The backend seems to be rock solid. Cons The user interface and API aren't exactly intuitive or easy to use. Review Source SK Stas K. DEV Hospitality Used the software for: 1-2 years ### " Highly Scalable Queues for your distributed systems" February 20, 2019 5.0 Great tool that helps your business to easily setup integrations with any 3rd party vendors. Pros \- highly available, fast and performant, haven't noticed any issues for more than 2 years of usage; - different types of queues are supported (push, pull) so you can choose what fits more for your needs; - simple to setup and use, needs almost zero maintenance after successful setup; - clear and straightforward dashboard UI and API documentation; - friendly support that ready to help with any questions; Cons \- sometimes it could be useful to see more details in usage reporting, some kind of filters or grouping by queue's name; Review Source AM Ashok M. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great product" February 26, 2019 5.0 I'm very happy with using IronMQ and would gladly recommend it in the future. Pros I liked that it had the capability to hit an endpoint on my app for processing the job instead of figuring out cron tasks to process the queue. Cons Debugging was initially tricky but once I figured out the UI, it was very simple. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Finance and Business Intelligence Consumer Goods Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Iron for the non-technical user" February 15, 2019 5.0 Pros It helps our operations team track progress of weekly asset generation process and identifies bottlenecks. Cons Nothing comes to mind. The operations team doesn't use much more than the dashboard. Review Source Kamil Z. Technical Lead Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Feedback on Iron MQ" February 26, 2019 4.0 Pros Performance, queue polling support, webhooks to use from external scripts Cons Not easy to understand all features, lack of webhook documentation Review Source LB Logan B. Software Developer Textiles Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "IronWorkers Work" March 1, 2019 4.0 We were able to establish a scalable way to data batch processing Pros The dashboard was the most useful part of this product, the monitoring gave insight especially during development phases Cons Sometimes it was not clear when tasks/workers would kick off, sometimes even stuck Review Source JP Joon P. ASOC IT Director Non-Profit Organization Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Good, but now more pricey (used to be free)" March 1, 2019 4.0 Pros All worked nicely and customer support was indeed supported. Cons It used to be affordable for us for quite some time. We relied on this, but since they introduced a price hike, we have been unable to keep subscribing to Iron. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Graduate Student Researcher Research Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "IronMQ message queue is rock solid" March 2, 2019 5.0 Stream security alerts Pros Simple API with python Big customer including CNN Long polling that is easy to integrate with websocket Cons Not clear how low the latency can it go (microsecond?) Review Source nK nikhil K. software engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "IronMQ review" February 15, 2019 4.0 Very good, our infrastructure teams have started leveraging iron tasks Pros The features about messages, tasks, caches etc Cons more detailed documentation is not available for developers Review Source AP Apurva P. Software engg Computer Software Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "IronMq review" February 15, 2019 4.0 Pros Feature about message, task funtion that works to manage load effectively Cons More detail Documentation for developement purpose required Review Source KC Ku C. Sr. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great framework with room to improve" February 15, 2019 4.0 Pros IronMQ is a robust messaging queue system. The REST API is easy to understand and adapt. Easy to scale Cons Again, admin console is the weakest link here. In several scenarios I have to navigate lots of steps to get what I want. Review Source MA Matti A. CTO Telecommunications Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Reasons not to choose IronMQ" February 26, 2019 3.0 Just a quick documentation review, which revealed that IronMQ is not applicable solution to my particular problem set. Pros I did not get this far. Lots of promises in material. Cons My application target needs embedable cluster messaging solution. GDPR rules prevent use of external services. Enterprise site local system might just barely be acceptable. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Developer Media Production Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Decent Service" February 16, 2019 3.0 Pros Has a good amount of features and very well documented. Cons Can be very expensive especially for people new to this. Review Source PS Patricia S. Accounting Mgr Internet Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Seamless service" February 22, 2019 5.0 Security of our records Pros It is very user friendly and easy; very no hassle type service. Cons I don't really have anything negative to say here. Review Source LG Lav G. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great work" February 27, 2019 5.0 Pros Ease of use, quick deployment and great customer service. Cons None that I can think of. The application works great. Review Source Similar Products Featured